This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed to promote the 1972
105-minute Youssef Chahine color film Those People of the Nile
[al-nas wal-nil]) based on story, screenplay and dialogue by Hassan
Fouad and Nicolai Vigorovosky and cinematography by Yu-Lan Chen,
Aleksandre Shelenkov and Abdel Aziz Fahmy. Plot summary: This film
dramatizes the construction of the Aswan Dam in Egypt, which was a
joint Russian-Egyptian project completed in 1971. When the film was
completed in 1968 it was banned by both governments because of
political issues; it was not cleared for official release until 1972
after some of the scenes had been filmed again. The film portrays the
personal conflicts of displaced Russian workers and the displeasure of
some Egyptian workers and local residents because of the impact of the
diversion of the Nile.